Special Social Groups, Social Factors and Disparities in Health and Health Care

Edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME
Special Social Groups and Social Factors - Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
PART II: SPECIAL GROUPS, WOMEN IN THE MILITARY, AND WOMEN VETERANS
Gun Under My Pillow: Health Consequences of the Fear of Assault Among Military Women - Rose Weitz
Barriers to Health Care Access and Utilization: A Study of Native American Women Veterans in Two Montana Reservations - Luma Almasarweh and Carol Ward
PART III: SPECIAL GROUPS LINKED TO RACE AND ETHNICITY
“Your Blood Is Sweet”: The Illness Experience of Southeast Asian Refugees with Type 2 Diabetes - Ethel G. Nicdao, Alixandria Henley and Jeffery C. Peterson
Aboriginal Health and Aboriginal Education Are Interconnected - Angela Mashford-Pringle
Women Go and Men Stay Home? Gender and the Utilization of Preventive Medical Care Among Asian and Latino Adults - Bridget Gorman, Becky Wade and Alexa Solazzo
PART IV: OTHER SPECIAL GROUPS: RURAL RESIDENTS, PEOPLE WITH HIV, LGBT PEOPLE AND ADOLESCENT MOTHERS
Contextual, Ecological, and Organizational Variations in Risk-adjusted COPD and Asthma Hospitalization Rates of Rural Medicare Beneficiaries - Thomas T. H. Wan, Yi-Ling Lin and Judith Ortiz
The Differential Impact of Social Relationships on Health Outcomes for HIV Positive Men and Women - Sara Legrand, Teresa L. Scheid and Kathryn Whetten
Pragmatism, Activism, and Cynicism: Logics of Engagement with Community Action to Improve Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health - Amanda K. Damarin, Zack Marshall and Lawrence Bryant
Rewriting Life Narratives: Positive Coping Mechanisms in Adolescent Mothers - Neale R. Chumbler, Smitha Ganashen, Colleen O’Brien Cherry, Dawn Garrett Wright and Jennifer J. Bute
PART V: OTHER SOCIAL FACTORS: EDUCATION, MARRIAGE, AND JOB STRESS
Does Variation in the Extent of Individual Education and Extensiveness of Social Security Policies Affect Health Information-Seeking? - Rania F. Valeeva and Piet Bracke
Reconceptualizing Health Lifestyles: The Case of Marriage – Catherine E. Ross, Terrence D. Hill and John Mirowsky
The Social Stratification of Job Stress: How Social Structures Create Health Disparity - Mark Tausig and Rudy Fenwick